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Protecting national security : a history of British communications investigation regulation / Phil Glover.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2023Description: xiv, 318 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781032040424 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344.410525 GLO
Summary: This book demonstrates that, irrespective of motive, perhaps the greatest irony of Edward Snowden's 2013 disclosures to various international media outlets is that the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 represents not a curtailment of huge, previously secret State power, but rather its probably irreversible 'transparent' entrenchment.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book demonstrates that, irrespective of motive, perhaps the greatest irony of Edward Snowden's 2013 disclosures to various international media outlets is that the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 represents not a curtailment of huge, previously secret State power, but rather its probably irreversible 'transparent' entrenchment.

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